Colin Holliday, Tower Captain of the St Comgall’s Church of Ireland Bell Ringers’, will give a short introductory talk about bell ringing which will be followed by the church bell ringers’ practice session.   Doors open at 7.00pm. The bell ringing talk will be held inside the church.  Once the talk is over, guests will move […]

Cormac Bourke, a renowned expert on monastic bells, will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Early Irish Hand-Bells Revisited.’  He will summarise what we know about the dozens of hand-bells of iron and bronze that survive from early medieval (ie pre-Norman) Ireland. Hand-bells were used from the 5th century in monastic communities and churches and are the […]